Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jews of Jerusalem danced last week in the synagogues and in the streets, bearing in their arms the scrolls of the Torah as they celebrated the end of the thanksgiving period of Sukkot.* The dancers were mostly men, but a few congregations allowed women to join in and carry the scrolls-to the bitter disapproval of the Orthodox. Women are forbidden to touch the Torah by an injunction of Halakah, that vast body of law that regulates Jewish life with a sweep ranging from lofty ethical norms to small dietary injunctions. Halakah, which means variously...
Orthodox Jews, of course, are generally the stern and unbending champions of an almost literal approach to Halakah. "On it and on it alone," says Halakah Scholar Rabbi Louis Rabinowitz of Jerusalem, "we base our lives, our thoughts and our actions." "Without Halakah," Israeli Author Abraham Kariv told a Jerusalem symposium on Halakah last week, "we do not know how to believe, let alone how to express our faith in everyday life." The Orthodox regard any watering down of Halakah as "the Gallup-poll approach to Judaism"-making the law conform to practice and thus, for example, permitting the eating...
JUSTICE IN JERUSALEM, by Gideon Hausner. Prosecutor Hausner's taut account of the arrest and trial of Adolf Eichmann...
JUSTICE IN JERUSALEM, by Gideon Hausner. Having prosecuted Adolf Eichmann in Israel, Hausner here successfully prosecutes him again in print...
...also decided to speak his mind about the boss. In a round of speeches, Harel explained that he was "a worried citizen" concerned about Eshkol's "in decisive leadership." To an audience of students at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, he hinted, "Things are really much more serious than I can explain...